He and Rebecca Dack, 34 - sole directors of JBS Driveways and JBS Home Improvements respectively in Billingham - could now face jail

The misery of 31 victims who paid money into Jones’ accounts between September 2014 and July 2016 was set out at Teesside Crown Court on Tuesday..

They included a couple trying to make their home more accessible for their disabled daughter, an 89-year-old woman in the early stages of Alzheimer’s, a couple in their 70s in ill health, and the dad of a four-year-old boy with a broken leg.

They lost a total of £53,430.

Customers were charged more than £50,000 for work

Prosecutor Richard Bennett told of substandard work including:

Workmen building a wall to the wrong height and digging up the wrong part of a garden and causing damage to a gas mains pipe;